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Guy Davenport Quotes

There’s nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation Picture Quote #1

Art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world Picture Quote #1

Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a past from which we are by now irrevocably alienated Picture Quote #1

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its maker’s attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding Picture Quote #1

The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a bicycle and a horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all a difference of imagination Picture Quote #1

Fiction’s essential activity is to imagine how others feel, what a Saturday afternoon in an Italian town in the 2nd Century looked like. My ambition is solely to get some effect, as of light on stone in a forest on a September day Picture Quote #1

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Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines) feedback, the advantages of learning from experience and of having developed reflexes Picture Quote #1

I was thought to be retarded as a child, and all the evidence indicates that I was Picture Quote #1

I am not writing for scholars or fellow critics, but for people who like to read, to look at pictures, and to know things Picture Quote #1

Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a past from which we are by now irrevocably alienated Picture Quote #1

The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go Picture Quote #1

Nothing now exists that is so valuable as whatever theoretically might replace it Picture Quote #1

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Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different Picture Quote #1

A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible Picture Quote #1

Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention Picture Quote #1

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding Picture Quote #1

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it Picture Quote #1

I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things Picture Quote #1

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Theres nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation Picture Quote #1

I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet Picture Quote #1

There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and some are the foolishness of the world, such as the desire to eat off silver plates. Desire is a wild horse to be tamed. Virtue is a habit long continued. The taming of desire is like the training of the athlete. Discipline is not the restraint but the use of energy... When I forbid myself what I may have, no person is going to tempt me with what is truly forbidden Picture Quote #1

We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture’s way of developing an individual Picture Quote #1

The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon Picture Quote #1

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There’s nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation. (Guy Davenport Quotes) Art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world (Guy Davenport Quotes) Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a past from which we are by now irrevocably alienated. (Guy Davenport Quotes) Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its maker’s attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding. (Guy Davenport Quotes) The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a bicycle and a horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all a difference of imagination. (Guy Davenport Quotes) Fiction’s essential activity is to imagine how others feel, what a Saturday afternoon in an Italian town in the 2nd Century looked like. My ambition is solely to get some effect, as of light on stone in a forest on a September day. (Guy Davenport Quotes) Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines) feedback, the advantages of learning from experience and of having developed reflexes (Guy Davenport Quotes) I was thought to be retarded as a child, and all the evidence indicates that I was (Guy Davenport Quotes) I am not writing for scholars or fellow critics, but for people who like to read, to look at pictures, and to know things (Guy Davenport Quotes) Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a past from which we are by now irrevocably alienated (Guy Davenport Quotes) The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go (Guy Davenport Quotes) Nothing now exists that is so valuable as whatever theoretically might replace it (Guy Davenport Quotes) Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different (Guy Davenport Quotes) A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible (Guy Davenport Quotes) Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention (Guy Davenport Quotes) Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding (Guy Davenport Quotes) Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it (Guy Davenport Quotes) I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things (Guy Davenport Quotes) Theres nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation (Guy Davenport Quotes) I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet (Guy Davenport Quotes) There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and some are the foolishness of the world, such as the desire to eat off silver plates. Desire is a wild horse to be tamed. Virtue is a habit long continued. The taming of desire is like the training of the athlete. Discipline is not the restraint but the use of energy... When I forbid myself what I may have, no person is going to tempt me with what is truly forbidden (Guy Davenport Quotes) We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture’s way of developing an individual (Guy Davenport Quotes) The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon (Guy Davenport Quotes)